ALEX BRUMMER: Enjoy it while you can… we cannot live on Rishi Sunak’s giveaways forever

No Chancellor in modern times has faced the looming horror of mass unemployment that scarred this country and the world economy in the 1930s. But this is precisely what Rishi Sunak’s unprecedented measures yesterday were designed to stave off. As what has been called the ‘first phase’ of the pandemic comes to an end, the … Read more

Slash National Insurance and VAT to get the economy back on its feet, says ex-chancellor Sajid Javid

Former chancellor Sajid Javid heaped pressure on successor Rishi Sunak to cut taxes to help Britain recover from coronavirus today as he called for reductions in National Insurance and VAT. Mr Javid, who quit in February after a bruising clash with Boris Johnson and his aide Dominic Cummings, called for a  ‘significant temporary’ reduction in NI … Read more

Bogus accountant pretended to have cancer after swindling client out of £186,000

Bogus accountant pretended to have cancer after swindling client out of £186,000 when his only financial training came from fellow prisoner he met while serving previous jail term David Weller set himself up as a tax agent after receiving training from cellmate He stole a total of £186,000 over three years from a building company  … Read more